Category: Sales CNNX

How Going The Extra Mile Shortens The Trip

The SBX Team is incredibly excited to debut this week’s blog post, How Going The Extra Mile Shortens The Trip, written by Lisa Lisson! No matter if you’re an employer, an employee, or self-employed; going the extra mile will always pay off. In a world full of technology and now the majority of the workforce…

The Future of Self-Driving Cars is in Full Gear with AVIN Funding

The idea of self-driving cars is no longer a futuristic concept; it’s here, and it’s now. Highly researched and developed experimental models are being tested all over the world, even in our local communities such as Hamilton, Ontario. Made easier with government funding through the Autonomous Vehicle Innovation Network (AVIN), autonomous vehicles will soon showcase…

Handling Pitch Questions: Expect the Unexpected

Fresh from writing my 175-page master’s thesis, my advisor called to tell me the defense would be 3-hours long and would involve a committee of 5 academic leaders from 3 faculties. It would begin with my half-hour opening presentation followed by 2.5 hours of being questioned by the committee. As a skilled speaker, the presentation part…

Death by Powerpoint & Other Business Crimes

What a fascinating time we are living in. We are practically living online, zoom fatigue has become a real ‘thing’ and we continue to kill people with ppt. No – we aren’t ‘killin’ it’ with our ppt’s (as your teen might say), it’s a bit less hip and a lot more painful. Death by PowerPoint continues…

Negotiating Your Way To Work… From Home

Negotiating anything in life can be a hard and daunting task. Maybe you’re itching to get back into the office, maybe you’re cautious about returning, or maybe you’ve found a new love for working from home! If that’s the case, how do you negotiate with your employer to let you continue to work from home…

Top Three On-Camera Tips to Help You Ace Your Next Online Meeting – PART 1

Most of us didn’t sign up to be on daytime television as actors or hosts but for many of us, it feels like that’s exactly where we have ended up.  Added to the stress of working from home, pivoting a business and completely revamping policies, procedures and protocols, being on camera for most of our…